Podcasts · Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
How to Make 2026 a Year You’ll Love
· 1 h 11 min
Episode How to Make 2026 a Year You’ll Love
Dr. Rick and Forrest explore how we can put our key values into action in 2026. They discuss how we can identify authentic values, and then translate them into goals and daily behaviors while reducing our focus on outcomes we don’t control. Forrest focuses on insights from Self-Determination Theory, and Dr. Rick shares how to create a warmer inner climate, and they talk about the overall importance of self-belief. The episode includes a number of practical tools related to environment design, scheduling, social accountability, and how to overcome obstacles.
Key Topics:
0:00: Introduction
2:00: What values are you focusing on this year?
8:50: Turning your values into plans
16:00: Motivation is “context dependent”
22:10: Claiming autonomy in an imperfect world
34:20: Turning ideas into specific behaviors
41:15: Updating self-concept
51:00: How to deal with normal obstacles
1:00:34: Recap
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